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Center, Connecticut Violence Intervention Program, Hartford Healthcare,Saint Francis Hospital; Yale New Haven Hospital and HCTC’s HartfordCare Response Team and others. Legislative and advocacy partnersinclude Congressman John Larson, State Senator Douglas McCrory,State Representatives Matt Ritter and Jillian Gilchrest, and the numerouscommunity and health care partners include The HAVI. On September17, 2020, the CT HVIP will hold its first full meeting since before the onsetof COVID-19, providing updates on how hospitals and agencies andThe HAVI have pivoted to address the pandemic crisis while maintainingthe critically important focus on violence prevention. The three CT HVIPwork groups (Research and Evaluation, Policy, and Training and TechnicalAssistance) are slated to update their developments – and the entiregroup will frame its goals on how to best move forward to strengthenexisting programming while supporting emerging HVIP partnershipsacross the state.Doubling Our EffortsViolence prevention is not unique to the City of Hartford. In New Haven,a dedicated team of frontline professionals and hospital partners also isworking to reduce incidents of crime. Executive Directors Leonard Jahadof the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program (CVIP) in New Havenand Andrew Woods of HCTC in a series of meetings have brought theirstaffs together this summer to learn from the experiences of others –and to support those working in frontline positions. These meetingshave included The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (the HAVI)national policy experts, who also are expert in training and technicalassistance for program professionals.On August 19, 2020, HCTC hosted a Front-Line Capacity BuildingSession where the HAVI presented an overview of their intensivefive-day training that can lead to the nationally recognized ViolencePrevention Professional (VPP) Certification. Twenty (20) front-lineintervention specialist representing the New Haven based-ConnecticutViolence Intervention Program and the five Community SafetyCoalition organizations: Blue Hills Civic Association, COMPASS YouthCollaborative, Mothers United Against Violence, Wilson Gray YMCA andHartford Communities That Care were in attendance.To make the most of our respective efforts in Hartford and New Haven, ourfrontline workers are building a mutually supportive community, sharingstories and best practices for violence reduction in their own communities.6Ways You Can Support (or continue to support) This WorkThe Hartford Care Response Team served 42% of the victims of violent
crime in the city from January to August 2020. According to data fromSaint Francis, Hartford Hospital, and Connecticut Children’s MedicalCenter, a total of 312 people were victims of gun shots or stab woundsduring that time period in Hartford*. 121 victims of violent crimes receivedinterventions from HCRT representing almost half of victims.* Not all victims injured were hartford residents.Victims of Violence Served by the HCRTYear to Date 2020**January- August 2020 Source- Hospital records and HCTC data312Victims of Violent Crime inHartford42%121 Victims of Violent CrimesRecieved HCRT ServicesTo continue the prevention and reduction of crime in thisheightened environment, when rates of violence are rising amidsta 100-year pandemic, Hartford Communities that Care could useadditional assistance to:1. Sustain at least two seasonal Intervention Specialists year-round,with additional resources to pay a per diem rate for an “On-Call”Intervention Specialist to be assigned to the Hartford Care ResponseTeam.2. Sustain the Administrative Coordinator for the CT-HVIP Collaborative,enabling ongoing support for workgroups and coordinatedmanagement of the CT-HVIP Collaborative.3. Thanks to the generosity of donors, we have been able to securefunds to enroll between 15-20 Intervention Specialists in the 35-hour Violence Prevention Professional (VPP) Certification program,facilitated by the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention. Thisadvanced training will raise the level of care provided and will allowfor statewide continuity of intervention methods.4. Support Harriott Home Health services in providing continuingpost-injury care to improve the recovery process. These servicessupport those with lack of access to adequate healthcare and lack ofinsurance, a problem often reported by mostly black male victims.Many survivors of violent puncture injuries have trouble with woundcare. Harriott Home Health Services has and continues to bridgethe gap in care for victims of violence by providing complex nursingand wound care supplies at home. Donor support would help7
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